Physicians Associate

This exciting new Physician Associate post within Breast Service has been created to support ongoing development of cancer care primarily within the breast diagnostic service but also working with the clinical team to impact patient care across the whole of the breast cancer pathway. The PA roles are being developed to work alongside the department’s doctors, advanced practitioners and other team members.

The PAs will provide supervised assistance to the multidisciplinary teams in the provision of a high quality service to patients. They will work under the direction of a supervising Consultant and mentor and collaboratively with other members of the clinical team within the Trust’s policies and clinical guidelines. Successful appointees will perform delegated duties with a high degree of clinical skill and knowledge. The appointed PA will develop to become a key member of the Breast MDT with the expectation they will support in-patient care, administrative processes, out-patient clinics and procedures. To maintain generalist skills, the appointed PA would be actively involved in pre-operative assessment and may also seek to spend time in the Acute Surgical Unit, managing emergency surgical patients.

By building on existing knowledge and skills as well as on the job training the post holder will contribute to the provision of high quality, patient centred care whilst advancing their own clinical skills. It is not mandatory that the Physician Associates have prior experience of the speciality as there will be provision of suitable training, supervision and accreditation.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester provide a comprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery. Services are provided across Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover sites.

The Trust covers a population of 600,000 incorporating Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospitals (BNHH), Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester, Andover War Memorial Hospital (AWMH) and community hospitals. We provide one hospital service across multiple localities, delivering services as close as possible to the patient. BNHH and RHCH are 23 miles apart, situated in the middle of the M3 corridor, with excellent transport links to London and the south coast.

Our values help us in what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and use these valuesthroughout your employment with the Trust to define and develop our culture.

**The post holder will be**:
- Compassionate, caring about our patients.
- Accountable and responsible, always looking to improve.
- Respectful for all and show integrity in everything.
- Encouraging and challenging each other to always do our best.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.